Sun Rises and Moon Sets Times Recorded
A dated weather-like notice records sun rise at 4.10 and sun set at 7.14 with moon set at 10.28 p.m. and length of day 15.04 hours. The terse entry notes daily solar timings for reference.
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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1900
Page
10
A dated weather-like notice records sun rise at 4.10 and sun set at 7.14 with moon set at 10.28 p.m. and length of day 15.04 hours. The terse entry notes daily solar timings for reference.
Yesterday closed with heat near midsummer levels and oppressive nights. Today began cooler but sun in a thin haze was expected to push temperatures to or beyond yesterday's highs. Massachusetts forecast calls for cloudy air, cooler conditions, and showers Saturday with westerly winds.
The column lists a wanted to buy or rent request for a house in Belvidere directed to the Courier-Citizen Co. It notes Maude Stickney’s health improving after a ten week illness, announces special bargains on men’s summer underwear at E D Steele Co, and reports Miss Mary F Reilly’s piano solo at a Boston recital. It also covers Grace Universalist Literary club’s season close with $20 donated to charity and new committee appointments for fall work.
The Fourth of July committee chaired by Councilman Pickering reviewed parade duties with Chief Marshal Proctor and selected Frank L. Weaver as chief of staff. A possible Charlestown visit was discussed and the parade group adjourned to continue tonight. The children entertainment panel announced bids closing June 15 for contracts. The vaccination segment of the Board of Health pressed mill owners to cooperate, urging compulsory vaccination in mills and detailing prior outbreaks and statutory authority.
At St Pauls M E church Thursday evening the Ladies Aid Society held its annual strawberry festival with Mrs S W Arnold as president in charge. Mrs Edwin Cleworth led dining room operations and Miss Grace Coburn assisted in the culinary department. Entertainment featured Lowell High mandolin and banjo club, duets by Grace Coburn and Blanche Martin, and solos by Mrs Nettle Roberts.
The Stevens lot between KE White and Charles Hutchinson residences in Nesmith Street, totaling 19,000 square feet, sold at auction yesterday afternoon through J. E. Conant & Co. Thomas Costello purchased the property for 22 cents per square foot.
An old advertisement praises Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a spring tonic that refreshes the blood and boosts energy, promising invigoration and courage. It notes bowel constipation reduces effectiveness and recommends Ayer's Pills as a purely vegetable laxative, 25 cents. All druggists.
Dr Lamoureux Hurtubise and Caisse to be paid 20.40 each for vaccinating 813 pupils at St Josephs parochial school and other sites. Dispensary work included. Dr Lavigne to receive higher fee for challenging tenement work. Dr Smith and Dr Field to be paid 25 dollars each for about an hour of expert work.
Bartholomew Berard aged about 27 of Marshall street Middlesex street entered the shop of Abraham Istin about 830 at night and assaulted the proprietor by the throat. A scuffle followed and Istin seized shears in defense. Berard escaped but was arrested later by Officer Curran and jailed on drunkenness and assault and battery charges.
Mill samples offered at 25c for ingrain granite quality yard squares and 35c for extra super all wool heavy quality. About 1600 pieces in second lot, available only twice a year and expected to sell quickly at Pollard’s basement location.
The Peter Salem garrison, a veterans' group from Revolutionary, Civil, and Spanish War eras, sent a delegation to decorate the grave of Peter Salem, a colored Revolutionary soldier after whom the society is named, on Wednesday.
The weekly meeting was held at Loomfixers hall last evening with regular business transacted. Twenty six new members were elected to the union.
The piece details the expenses of going to court and presenting to Queen Victoria. It notes dress costs for married women and girls, train lengths, plumes, veils, and gloves, plus gowns for mothers and grandmothers. It explains the Lord Chamberlain process, the timing of Drawing Rooms, crowds along the Mall, and the exclusivity of palace entry for diplomats, ministers, and household members.
The article describes the formal order of precedence for presentations in the Queen's Drawing Room. It covers arrival, cloak room, train handling, card exchange with pages, and entry into salons. It explains courtesies to be exchanged with the Queen, including hand kissing for certain peers and the correct timing of bowing. It notes the throne room arrangement, officials, and the social gatekeeping restricting attendance to upper classes and major enterprises.
The New York Telegraph profiles heir presumptions of vast fortunes in the early twentieth century. John D Rockefeller Jr and Alfred Vanderbilt are highlighted as young heirs shaping future wealth, with William K Vanderbilt Jr and the Astors also noted. The piece cites George Gould, Kingdon Gould, J Pierpont Morgan Jr, and Harry Payne Whitney among the coming richest, detailing branches of the families and their lifestyles.
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